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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

Matusiak wrote:
> 
>   "I want YOU to suffer and pay for my excess!"
> 
> Former George Bush Sr. crony Hamid Karzai is quickly usurping control
> over Afghanistan for the foreseeable future.  How can you trust someone
> who obviously has greater interest in Afghan energy resources than the
> actual Afghan people?  This is about as respectable as Paul Bremer
> deciding that he should continue to run Iraq.  The Neocon future is
> upon us.
> --
> http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040726_966.html
> 
> KABUL, Afghanistan July 26, 2004 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai
> dropped a powerful warlord from his electoral ticket after intense
> political wrangling that prompted NATO peacekeepers to beef up their
> presence on the streets of the capital.
> 
>   The U.S.-backed interim leader selected a little-known brother of the
> late Afghan resistance hero Ahmad Shah Massood to be his chief running
> mate in a surprise move sure to test this volatile nation's fragile
> ethnic and factional balance.
> 
> "I hope the Afghan people will recognize us as a good team and I hope
> the people of Afghanistan will vote for us," Karzai told reporters
> summoned to a shady courtyard of the presidential palace.
> --
> How can you vote someone in who basically stole power a few months ago?
>   Atrocious.

Because they are free and can vote for whomever they want.  Is that the
answer you are looking for?  :-)